When Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She recounts her own experience and the history of C-sections in her book, Invisible Labor.
When Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She recounts her own experience and the history of C-sections in her book,When journalist and professor Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She says she could literally feel the operation as it was happening. Later, after her daughter was born, Somerstein remembers a practitioner blaming her for the ordeal.
Somerstein considered suing the hospital, but since neither she nor her daughter suffered long-term consequences, she was told she didn’t have a case. So instead of pouring her energy into a lawsuit, she decided to write a book. Inshe writes about her own experience with childbirth, as well as the broader history of C-sections.
"I think that I would have had a third baby if I hadn't had this birth," she says. "I love my children so much. They are the absolute joy and sunshine in my life. I think that I wish I'd had one in between my daughter and my son and I didn't."Prevost, the slave master and physician who was educated in France and came to the United States, he practiced the procedure on enslaved women. And he did that in cases where the labor was obstructed, like ...
And it includes also access to midwifery care. ... When we're talking about particularly caring for people who are low-risk in their pregnancies, a way to ensure a better outcome and also promote vaginal birth. … And Black women have less access to midwives than white women. And that's not because of lack of desire. There's not enough midwives, period, for the demand in the United States. But the gap is largest for Black women's demand versus availability.
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